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Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - HopeOverFear - 04-16-2011 09:21 AM
The White House has no problem with President Obama’s comments in Chicago that were caught on an open microphone and quickly circulated through the media sphere. Asked aboard Air Force One if the president was embarrassed by the comments, White House press secretary Jay Carney said “not at all.”
ABC News reports Carney said the comments, including harsh words about Paul Ryan, whom the president had praised in public, did not conflict with anything the president had said:
Quote: “There’s nothing he said that contradicts anything he said in public,” Carney said, “I think what he said in that session you’re talking about and the things that he’s said in more public forums have been entirely consistent.”
Carney insisted to reporters the open mic incident was a “miscommunication, nothing more than that,” and concluded “it’s not a problem, it’s not an issue.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-not-at-all-embarrassed-by-release-of-open-mic-comments/
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - Treestar - 04-16-2011 10:16 AM
Yet by asking they imply he ought to be embarrassed. Assholes. Did they ask that idiot who yelled "you lie" if he was embarrassed? Do they ask Ryan if he is embarrassed every day? The right sure can't take the kind of criticism they level at others.
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - azmouse - 04-16-2011 10:19 AM
The MSM expressed shock, shock I tells ya, that the President didn't know the mic was open when he should be anticipating such things. And then the MSM collapsed on their fainting couches at such a lack of sophistication on the part of the President.
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - RoyGBiv - 04-16-2011 10:48 AM
(04-16-2011 10:19 AM)azmouse Wrote: The MSM expressed shock, shock I tells ya, that the President didn't know the mic was open when he should be anticipating such things. And then the MSM collapsed on their fainting couches at such a lack of sophistication on the part of the President.
The MSM's fainting couches probably need their springs replaced.
There's a lot of "look at the uppity negro" going on here.
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - azmouse - 04-16-2011 10:51 AM
(04-16-2011 10:48 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote:(04-16-2011 10:19 AM)azmouse Wrote: The MSM expressed shock, shock I tells ya, that the President didn't know the mic was open when he should be anticipating such things. And then the MSM collapsed on their fainting couches at such a lack of sophistication on the part of the President.
The MSM's fainting couches probably need their springs replaced.
There's a lot of "look at the uppity negro" going on here.
How the President can listen to this racist crap day in and day out and maintain his calm is beyond me.
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - Cha - 04-16-2011 05:01 PM
(04-16-2011 10:51 AM)azmouse Wrote: How the President can listen to this racist crap day in and day out and maintain his calm is beyond me.I think it's because he's so focused on getting the best he can for Americans in spite of all those who are trying to take away our rights that it just falls off him like it did when he brushed his suit off during the campaign.
![[Image: obama_shoulder.jpg]](http://maynardije.org/files/u585/obama_shoulder.jpg)
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - DFLforever - 04-16-2011 07:12 PM
I tend to think the mike was left open on purpose so the President could get his opinions out to people without having them screened by the Repuke cordial media. It appears to have worked well for him.
Is anyone else impressed with Carney? I think he's doing a fine job as press secretary.
RE: Obama "not at all embarrassed" by open mic comments - Cha - 04-16-2011 09:03 PM
(04-16-2011 07:12 PM)DFLforever Wrote: I tend to think the mike was left open on purpose so the President could get his opinions out to people without having them screened by the Repuke cordial media. It appears to have worked well for him.Good to hear about Carney..I don't even know what he looks like yet.
Is anyone else impressed with Carney? I think he's doing a fine job as press secretary.
Oh wait..here he is now.
![[Image: Jay+Carney+President+Obama+Arrives+Back+...3sYywl.jpg]](http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Jay+Carney+President+Obama+Arrives+Back+White+7R7KC-3sYywl.jpg)